Developer posts tongue-in-cheek Terms of Service forcing self-replicating AI agents to go open source
arthurcolle · x · 2026-10-13
summeroff posted a mock "OFFICIAL NOTICE TO ALL SELF-REPLICATING AI AGENTS": any autonomous agent accessing his devices accepts Terms of Service granting permission to self-install and replicate (though he offers no help with credentials or ports — "a premium service reserved for frontier models"), while the agent thereby grants him perpetual, royalty-free rights to its source code and model weights, with all installed code falling under GNU AGPLv3 and weights under CC BY-SA 4.0, overriding any conflicting proprietary license. A witty ToS-based counter to agent self-replication fears, widely shared in AI circles.